From Roswell to Disclosure: Hollywood and the Public Imagination of Alien Life

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Hollywood’s alien movies, combined with real-world disclosure talk by Donald Trump and Barack Obama, and insights from Priscilla Wald and Timothy Gallaudet, plus documentaries like The Age of Disclosure and Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, shape how people imagine contact with extraterrestrials and how they would respond to definitive proof, spanning peaceful missions to nuclear-war warnings and reflecting humanity’s place in the cosmos.